(UCLA) – When new mothers complain that all those sleepless nights caring for their newborns are taking years off their life, they just might be right, UCLA research published this summer in the journal Sleep Health suggests.
By Amanda Hughes, Neil Davies and Sean Harrison
(The Conversation) – There’s a widespread belief that your testosterone can affect where you end up in life.
(University of Oxford) – A study involving nearly half a million people in China reveals a clear link between cooking with wood or coal, and an increased risk of major eye diseases that can lead to blindness, according to a report published in PLOS Medicine.
KABUL, (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents captured an Afghan provincial capital and killed the government’s senior media officer in Kabul yesterday amid a deteriorating security situation as U.S.
(Reuters) – Nichole Atherton couldn’t take it anymore.
The intensive care nurse watched helplessly last year as COVID-19 sufferers died in her Mississippi hospital – slowly, painfully and alone.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former employee who accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of groping her in the Executive Mansion in Albany has filed a criminal complaint with the Albany County sheriff’s department, the department said yesterday.
(Reuters) – United Airlines Inc yesterday became the first U.S. airline to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all domestic employees, joining a swelling list of companies mandating jabs for workers as coronavirus cases rise.
KABUL, (Reuters) – Taliban fighters today assassinated the Afghanistan government’s top media and information officer in the capital Kabul, an act condemned by the senior U.S.
SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – Haiti’s government has requested help from the United Nations to conduct an international investigation into the killing last month of President Jovenel Moise, the country’s embassy in the Dominican Republic said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden took a step toward his goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions yesterday with an executive order aimed at making half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 electric, a move made with backing from the biggest U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The Atlantic Ocean’s current system, an engine of the Northern Hemsiphere’s climate, could be weakening to such an extent that it could soon bring big changes to the world’s weather, a scientific study said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday offered temporary “safe haven” to Hong Kong residents in the United States, allowing what could be thousands of people to extend their stay in response to Beijing’s crackdown on democracy in the Chinese territory.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of business leaders representing large Brazilian banks and other companies yesterday published a letter titled “Elections will be respected,” in an apparent rebuke of President Jair Bolsonaro’s recent threats against the 2022 elections.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico will host talks between the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the political opposition, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters today, the first time a Mexican official has confirmed the negotiations.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping today said China will strive to provide 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to other countries in 2021, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department is looking into the whereabouts of a $5,800 bottle of whisky given to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by the Japanese government, a U.S.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Delays in international deliveries of the second dose of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine will be fully resolved this month, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), responsible for the shot’s marketing abroad, said in a statement yesterday.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A controversial prosecutor in Guatemala has been tapped to replace an internationally renowned graft-fighter who until recently led the country’s anti-corruption unit, Guatemalan authorities said on Tuesday.
(Reuters) – Nicaraguan authorities have detained a former beauty queen bidding to contest the November presidential elections, her party said, as the government of President Daniel Ortega shows no sign of ending a crackdown against the opposition.